Join Robert Hatcher, Georgia Power Company, as he recaps his presentation and offers new insight.

Hatcher will discuss how Georgia Power:

Handles failed meters, poor coverage and incorrect billing issues

Uses a single application to consolidate databases for issue management and reporting

Manages approximately 2 million meters with less than a 0.5 percent exception rate over 96 hours and a staff of 11

Hatcher is a senior engineer at Georgia Power Company, a Southern Company. He joined the Georgia Power AMI team in 2007 as a network engineer. He is responsible for management and maintenance of the AMI head-end system and back-end system interfaces. In this role he has developed several automated business processes for metric collection and reporting, exception reporting, and data migration.

Prior to 2007, Hatcher worked in IT at the Southern Company for 30 years. He has worked in applications programming, systems support and operations, and database support. During this tenure he worked on many cross-functional projects that have involved various business units, including nuclear, transmission, distribution and finance.

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